Medak lockup torture: Parties demand action against police
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: Demanding action against policemen involved in the case pertaining to Mohammed Qadeer, who died while undergoing treatment here on Friday, AIMIM urged authorities to book those involved in the alleged torture of daily wager for murder. Following an outcry on social media, MIM legislator, Kausar Mohiuddin, who attended Qadeer’s funeral in Medak on Saturday, demanded that the FIR should include names of all police personnel involved in the incident. “35-year old Mohammed Qadeer was picked up from his sister’s house in Hyderabad by Medak police on January 27 and he was tortured on the suspicion of theft. Amjedullah Khan, MBT spokesman, who highlighted the issue on Friday, said that only a CBI inquiry or a probe by a sitting High Court judge will ‘unearth the truth of police torture’.